Business Talent Group is launching BTG Europe with the acquisition of UK-based Hillgate, a talent marketplace that provides agile workforce solutions to multinational Fortune 500 companies. The move expands BTG’s international footprint, scale, and position as the leading global marketplace for on-demand, high-end independent talent….

Business Talent Group (BTG) is entering into an exclusive collaboration with Heidrick & Struggles to offer Heidrick clients seamless access to BTG’s top independent professionals—on demand—for critical project-based assignments. We are excited to collaborate with Heidrick, and we are honored that Krishnan Rajagopalan, President and…

The promise of the gig economy just got a little closer—and a lot easier for the world’s top companies to tap. Business Talent Group (BTG) is pleased to announce a minority investment from global workforce solutions leader Kelly Services. This investment will unleash the potential…

Finally, an innovative technology company figured out that work model innovation is as important as business model innovation. Amazon’s new 30-hour work week option for some of their technical teams is the biggest work news since we got the weekend off almost a century ago….

Mark Zuckerberg recently made a splash by announcing that he’d be taking two months of paternity leave when his wife delivered their daughter (a baby girl named Max) a week ago. As a symbol of how the workplace needs to be more family-oriented and more…

Marissa Mayer (CEO, Yahoo) caused a firestorm recently when she announced that she will likely take limited maternity leave when her twins are born. I founded BTG, to give people control over their lives and to let them, and only them, decide how and when…

One of the ironies of our current employment cycle is that millions of people are looking for work at a time when millions of job vacancies go unfilled. According to ManpowerGroup’s most recent talent survey, a third of US employers report difficulties filling job vacancies…

Today, a talent war is not enough, the most successful companies have to wage a “permanent campaign” to attract and retain talent. The future of work is here. This was one of my big takeaways from the Milken Global Conference panel I recently moderated on…

Here in LA, where some of the best minds in business are converging on the Milken Institute Global Conference to share survival strategies for this era of creative disruption, it’s not surprising to think that some of the answers might come from our own back…